Horse Racing Quotes

• A horse gallops with his lungs, perseveres with his heart, and wins with his character.

  Federico Tesio

  Horse, Inspiration, Heart

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• Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.

  W. C. Fields

  Funny, Horse, Crazy

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• The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.

  John Steinbeck

  Horse, Book, Writing

  "The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights". Book by John Steinbeck, 1976.

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• Money, horse racing and women: three things the boys just can't figure out.

  Will Rogers

  Horse, Boys, Racing

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• The horse I bet on was so slow, the jockey kept a diary of the trip.

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Horse, Humor

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• There is no secret so close as that between a rider and his horse.

  Robert Smith Surtees

  Horse, Secret, Riding

  'Mr Sponge's Sporting Tour' (1853) ch. 31

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• I played a great horse yesterday! It took seven horses to beat him.

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Horse, Humor

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• Any horse can win on any given day.

  Angel Cordero, Jr.

  Horse, Winning, Racing

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• My horse's jockey was hitting the horse. The horse turns around and says "Why are you hitting me, there is nobody behind us!"

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Horse, Humor

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• There where the course is,
  Delight makes all of the one mind,
  The riders upon the galloping horses,
  The crowd that closes in behind.

  William Butler Yeats

  Horse, Racing, Mind

  William Butler Yeats (1931). “Later Poems”, p.73, Library of Alexandria

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• A good jockey doesn't need orders and a bad jockey couldn't carry them out anyway; so it's best not to give them any.

  Lester Piggott

  Horse, Order, Giving

  "Lester the legend back to claim the limelight" by Paul Weaver, www.theguardian.com. June 22, 2007.

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• A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.

  Will Rogers

  Funny, Sarcastic, Horse

  "Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Roosevelt Years, 1933-1935".

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• If horse racing is the sport of kings, then drag racing must be the sport of queens.

  Bert Sugar

  Sports, Horse, Kings

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• When I bestride him, I soar, I am a hawk: he trots the air; the earth sings when he touches it; the basest horn of his hoof is more musical than the pipe of Hermes.

  William Shakespeare

  Horse, Air, Musical

  William Shakespeare (1998). “Henry V”, p.197, Oxford University Press, USA

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• My horse was so late getting home, he tiptoed into the stable.

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Horse, Home

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• Horse racing is animated roulette.

  Roger Kahn

  Money, Horse, Gambling

  Roger Kahn (2012). “Games We Used to Play: A Lover's Quarrel with the World of Sport”, p.41, Diversion Books

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• The sport of horse racing which, at its best, showcases the majestic beauty of this animal and the athleticism of jockeys, has reached an alarming level of corruption and exploitation.

  Tom Udall

  Sports, Horse, Animal

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• I don't mind when my horse is left at the post. I don't mind when my horse comes up to me in the stands and asks, "Which way do I go?" But when the horse I bet on is at the $2 window betting on another horse in the same race...

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Horse, Humor

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• Horse racing is waning in popularity.

  Elayne Boosler

  Horse, Racing, Popularity

  "Mr. Ed, It’s What’s for Dinner" by Elayne Boosler, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 1, 2011.

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• A horse doesn't know whether the rider on his back wears a dress or pants away from the track.

  Diane Crump

  Horse, Track, Racing

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• Never think of your car as a cold machine, but as a hot-blooded horse.

  Juan Manuel Fangio

  Horse, Thinking, Car

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• If you want to understand the effect of weight on a horse, try running for a bus with nothing in your hands. Then try doing it with your hands full of shopping. Then think about doing that for four and a half miles.

  Jenny Pitman

  Running, Horse, Thinking

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• The only sport I'm not interested in is horse racing. That's because I don't know the horses personally.

  Nat King Cole

  Sports, Horse, Racing

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• Civilization is drugs, alcohol, engines of war, prostitution, machines and machine slaves, low wages, bad food, bad taste, prisons, reformatories, lunatic asylums, divorce, perversion, brutal sports, suicides, infanticide, cinema, quackery, demagogy, strikes, lockouts, revolutions, putsches, colonization, electric chairs, guillotines, sabotage, floods, famine, disease, gangsters, money barons, horse racing, fashion shows, poodle dogs, chow dogs, Siamese cats, condoms, peccaries, syphilis, gonorrhea, insanity, neuroses, etc., etc.

  Henry Miller

  Sports, Suicide, Fashion

  Henry Miller (1961). “The Cosmological Eye”, p.177, New Directions Publishing

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• On a horse that consistently hung left-The best thing you can do is put a bit of lead in his right ear, to act as a counterbalance ... with a shotgun.

  Lester Piggott

  Horse, Racing, Ears

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